With De La Soul playing just around the corner, Doves’ frontman Jimi Goodwin played Belfast’s Black Box on Sunday, May 12 on the closing night of this year’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival. Having shot a few other acts for us at the festival over the last few days, Alan Maguire popped along to the show to take photos.
Isabel Thomas shoots Dublin indie-rock duo We Cut Corners launch their second studio album, Think Nothing, at Dublin’s Button Factory on Friday, May 9. Support came from singer-songwriter Liza Flume.
In this installment of Inbound, Loreana Rushe chats to the mesmerising Temper-Mental MissElayneous about her many influences, hiphop culture in Ireland and the power of the spoken word. Hi Elayne. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? (Your background, things you enjoy etc) All I wanted to be since as long as I can remember was different. Spumco’s Ren & Stimpy are my heroes since age 7. I wanted to correlate my artistic motives with their creator, Kricfalusi’s artistic vision to never repeat his characters facial expressions twice. I read multiple books simultaneously. Currently one of those many books is…
American indie-pop quartet Dum Dum Girls and Crocodiles stopped off at Galway’s finest venue by a country mile, Roisin Dubh, on Friday, May 9. Our photographer Owen Humphreys was there to capture the show.
Photographer Tara Thomas shoots Liam O’Maonlai of the Hothouse Flowers, supported by Taffy’s Mob at Number 1 in Mullingar on Thursday, May 8.
On Friday night (May 9), Le Galaxie presented Love System, an unforgettable late-night celebration of marriage equality at Dublin’s Academy. Also featuring performances fromShips and Daithi, Le Galaxie and various DJs reeled in the small hours in full-on, fuck tha police (legislative Government) party mode. Check out Shaun Neary’s photos from throughout the night below.
Supported by Lionize, American heavy rock legends Clutch recently played Belfast’s Limelight to a sold-out audience. Minds were expanded; Robin Cordiner took photos.
Our photographer Alan Maguire shoots English quartet Wild Beasts and Belfast indie-pop band GO WOLF in the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival marquee tent on Thursday, May 8.
Ahead of their Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival on Friday night, our photographer Shaun Neary captured Japanese all-female pop-punk trio Shonen Knife – supported by Kate’s Party – played Dublin’s Whelan’s last night, Tuesday, May 6.
Making a very welcome return to these shores, Americana/blues band The Handsome Family played the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival marquee on Bank Holiday Monday, May 5. Support on the night came from Pennsylvanian folk singer Vikesh Kapoor. Check out photos from the show by Alan Maguire below.